Sentences with phrase «increasing access to care»

We strive to make your pet's health care easier to manage by increasing access to care.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

The way to reduce health inequality isn't only increasing access to care or providing health insurance, they say.

The teams focused on meeting survivors» health needs, increasing access to care and preparing safety net health facilities to better prepare for future storms.

While the consumer price index has averaged a 3.7 % annual increase since 1947, [7] it is estimated that the medical care component will continue to rise (6.5 % in 2017)-- and increased access to care nationwide will drive that figure higher.

«What's more, she saw her provisions to increase access to care for women and working mothers included in the final version of this year's landmark Healthcare Reform bill, another piece of legislation she successfully championed.»

«MSF and DNDi are working together to increase access to care and treatment for HCV patients in key low - and middle - income countries, through the STORM - C project financed by MSF's Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) initiative.

This past year — 2016 — we took steps in a number of crucial areas to increase access to care through the expansion of our physical plant in Belmont, Massachusetts, as well as to focus efforts on emerging uses of technology to improve delivery of care.

On June 13, Mayor Vincent C. Gray, announced the district continues to lower its infant mortality rate, which Saul Levin, the city's interim director for the Department of Heath, says reflects DC's «commitment to increased access to care.»

For example, such partnerships can force landlords to remediate poor housing conditions that aggravate a patient's asthma, increase access to care by helping patients establish eligibility for Medicaid, improve educational services for children with special needs, or help patients escape violent domestic situations.

Thanks to the innovations in technology, the aging population, and increased access to care, you can probably train for one of these careers on an efficient timeline, and start working upon graduation or licensure.

Including MFTs and LPCs in Medicare will increase access to care, especially in rural areas where providers are scarce.

We are working to increase access to care for all women so that they and their infants can thrive.»

Not exact matches

This unique integrated model increases access to quality care, delivers better health outcomes and lowers overall health care costs.

To support the new law increasing access to mental health care, Barden said he met with several lawmakers and served as a «broker between different stakeholders»To support the new law increasing access to mental health care, Barden said he met with several lawmakers and served as a «broker between different stakeholders»to mental health care, Barden said he met with several lawmakers and served as a «broker between different stakeholders».

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

«We certainly applaud government's efforts on easing the burden of high housing costs and increasing access to child care, but in introducing a payroll tax to offset lost MSP premium revenues this Budget delivers another meaningful blow to small to medium employers, especially in the service and technology sectors,» adds Black.

For example, it may be increasing access to essential medication by having lower prices than competitors and a convenient delivery model, and it may be improving quality of care by building trust with its customers.

Mirroring the value - based model to incentivize pharmacies to help patients adhere to prescription regimens, the new network has the potential to control costs and improve the quality of care through increased access and convenience.

Michael Geist, writing in the Toronto Star, declared that «a TPP based on the US proposals would signal a near - complete surrender of a made - in - Canada approach to intellectual property, leading to risks of lost Internet access, expansive border seizures, increased health care costs, and criminal liability for non-commercial infringement.»

Specific policies include a Doctors and Nurses Fund to increase training capacity for new health care professionals; working with Aboriginal communities to close the gap in the health status of Aboriginal peoples; and the introduction of a drug plan to ensure Canadians have access to catastrophic drug coverage.

Work with the Federal Government to explore the human capital benefits of increasing access to affordable child care; and

Many people could tell you the obvious things: the provision of special care, the preparation of the church building for access, the sensitization of the pastor to the increasing numbers of the aging.

Encouraging insurance approaches that increase worker take home pay while maintaining access to high quality health care.

He has strengthened programs that encourage adoption, increased pre - and post-natal care, and has increased access to contraception.

We take a holistic approach that goes beyond Fair Trade to include improved educational opportunities and increased access to basic health care.

Homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage in the lowest risk women receiving care from highly trained midwives (often two) and liberal access to transfer.

Another focus of the role included projects to increase access, participation in, and quality of pregnancy care in New Mexico.

They continue to work together in Task Forces on strategic initiatives that will increase access to safe, respectful, affordable maternity care; improve inter-professional education; and enable patient - responsive and population - specific research on maternal choice, experience and outcomes related to birth place.

The recommendations I submitted include cloth diaper educational programs, financial incentives for families to use cloth diapers, support for institutional (hospitals, daycares, elder care homes) cloth diaper use, cloth diaper business support, and increased access to diaper laundering facilities (laundromats, hotel machines).

CFAM is working to improve the health of mothers and babies by increasing access to midwifery care.

The every child deserves a family campaign promotes the best interests of all children in the foster care and adoption system by increasing their access to loving, stable, forever homes, and works to ensure safe and supportive care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth seeking family formation.

This strongly suggests that the previous increase in maternal mortality was not driven by lack of access to health care, since access has not increased.

2001 - 3: increasing access to out - of - hospital maternity care services through state - regulated and nationally - certified direct - entry midwives.

This evidence supports the American Public Health Association's recommendation8 to increase access to out of hospital maternity care services with direct entry midwives in the United States.

The report recommended increased access to medical care and improvements in the quality of that care, and yet the focus of the economic and personnel resources of the city in response to the report have been blame - shifting, fear - mongering, and slight - of - hand.

The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), established in 1982, is a professional membership organization that promotes excellence in midwifery practice, endorses diversity in educational backgrounds and practice styles, and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality health care and improving outcomes for women, babies, families, and communities.

This document identifies the critical need to increase access to quality care before, during, and after childbirth.

Last week Nebraska passed the School Readiness Tax Credit Act, creating two new tax credits designed to increase access to high quality early care and education (ECE) programs.

In previous studies of full - term infants, ascertainment of morbidity status occurred after discharge from the hospital, increasing the potential for confounding related to the home environment, parental socioeconomic status, parental smoking, and differential access to health care.

For example, Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services focusing on early learning experiences, health and nutritional status, social - emotional behavior, early intervention, and parent support, offers increased access to health care, well - child exams, immunizations, and screening tests for children enrolled in the program.

These included distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to reduce inequalities; lay health workers and training of traditional birth attendants to increase participation in health by consumers; contracting out of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, reminders and recall for immunisation; working with for - profit providers to increase the effectiveness of care; subcontracting the delivery of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, addressing the distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, substitution of doctors by nurses, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to increase coverage or access; and outpatient referrals to improve the coordination of care.

Our villages can support women by helping them integrate mothering with employment, increasing access to human milk, improving media support, and reducing inequities in care.

Our intention is to increase access to support services and care, and we believe that diversifying from within is an active step towards that goal.

However, it is far from clear that maternal mortality is even rising, let alone that it is rising because of decreased access to care or increases in the C - section rate or other interventions.

To increase access, awareness and availability of MotherBaby - Friendly Maternity Care.

Increasing access to out - of - hospital maternity care services through state - regulated and nationally - certified direct - entry midwives.

By eliminating state laws, policies, practices and procedures that exclude potential adoptive and foster parents because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status this bill will dramatically increase access to permanent, loving homes for children living in foster care.